two people are killed and several injured by a suicide bomber who detonated his device at the entrance to the us embassy in the turkish capital ankara. as france declares victory in its three week long campaign against islamist in mali chilling accounts of emerging of the human cost of the intervention also. we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become. torture executive executions and a taste for covering it all up cia whistleblower john kiriakou tells r t why he turned against the agency. and a rare failure for russia and u.s. satellite collaboration as a rocket carrying communications equipment ditches minutes after takeoff.

live from our studios in moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now our top story this hour a suicide bomber has attacked the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara killing two people and injuring at least two others and the bomber believed to be a member of the left wing group detonated explosives as he was passing through an x. ray scanner at the entrance to the building our chief correspondent paul asli are brings us more details. three people have been killed today including the suicide bomber a security guard as well as a turkish citizen who was a member of the staff at the american embassy now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang also prunes of smoke that have been erupting outside of the american embassy or american embassy staff have been taken to safe rooms inside the

embassy the last did happen in a part of ankara where there are several other indices including that of germany as well as all fronts the explosion caused no damage inside the embassy itself but it did cause extensive damage to the outside wall there are a number of illegal groups ranging from kurdish separatists to lift just to islamic militants who have launched attacks in recent years in turkey's perhaps it's worth mentioning that prior to this explosion the son in law of the sama bin ladin was arrested in the turkish capital of ankara you also have in addition to this violence from syria that continuously spills across the border and in the past artillery from syria has killed turkish civilians what that means is that you have a whole host of groups who could be implicated or who could have carried out this attack back in september there was that new torrijos mission in benghazi in libya where we had four american staff members killed including the american ambassador

and then just a few days ago you had britain's foreign office warning of a potential threat against the british embassy in tripoli so what we are witnessing is a chain of events targeting western embassies not least of all the united states that seems to be picking up momentum and it is a reflection of the growing anger against washington and other western countries at a particularly unstable time in the region. mark romanek professor of international relations for bill can university in turkey says that anchors foreign policy in the region widely supported by washington could have provoked the attack. the government has been pursuing right wing nationalist groups that are hostile to it but it may have its security made up or taken its eye off the ball the virus radical islamic groups who have been passing through turkey to enter syria i think it's really common for people to stumble instance to see people coming from north

africa who are parents two hundred types and they then move down to antioch on the border of syria across so there is danger as we saw in libya that people but the west has supported as opponents of the dictator they're against can however decide that they can open fire on the western sponsors or at least one western sympathizers as happened in the american consulate in benghazi in september it is not impossible that such groups have targeted you or so obviously in ankara i suppose if for the sake of argument the perpetrator could be linked to a state shall we say iran or syria itself then it is possible that it could be argued that it was only a state sponsors attack an invasion of turkish territory turkey is a nato member its allies should in some sense come to say i suspect that the likely response is obviously going to be an intensified security suite an investigation of how this happened who may have assisted the suicide bomber it's unlikely that it was a solo person. but of course it could contribute to the international tensions but

it could of course turn out to be somebody who has a grievance against united states more from an angle that we're not looking at from some other subsection of the population or from someone who's been able to enter turkey marseilles. well meanwhile in syria internal conflict is taking on international dimensions syria's key opposition groups lam's israel over an airstrike on syrian territory while the government payers for retaliation stay with us for more on that. and egyptians march across the country in protest massive demonstrations called for the president to go to spite a new green meant to try and stop violence signed after a week of deadly clashes. the first man convicted over america's torture program is now on call waiting to start a thirty month prison sentence but decorated cia veteran john kiriakou played no part in the interrogations he was instead convicted over leaks after blowing

washington's then secret program wide open speaking to archie he told us just what it is he's being punished for. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't

even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on citizens american. isn't intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just a part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. for john kiriakou was also against an abbey martin's breaking the scent here on our t.v. where he told of the different torture techniques used by the cia also more in his case the implications in an in-depth interview you can watch next hour do you think

that the the real people who oversaw codified torture john you alberto gonzales and donald rumsfeld shouldn't they be the ones sitting in prison john think they should be the ones and there are others even if you just put aside the people who actually did the day to day torture what about the people who conceived of the policy and who implemented the policy were the attorneys that papered over it with with crazed legal analysis or the man who who destroyed evidence of the torture in the tapes. thousands of people are marching in demonstrations across egypt against the rule the president mohamed morsi the main rallies are taking place in tahrir square in cairo in the town of port saïd near the suez canal for more details let's not cross live to bell true who joins us live from cairo bell what is the current state of

the protests are they peaceful so far. but i'm standing about a very boisterous and defiant protest here in egypt's tahrir square where thousands have gathered to protest against the president this comes on what protesters are calling is that they have been different with multiple protest demonstrations across the country. it's been a year for shakes and down south so far here in cairo the scenes have been relatively peaceful we do have a clashes intermitting clashes between the protesters on the cornish and security forces which has been going on and off now for for several days in addition to reports also if you can use violence in the shaky input side that is a slightly different vibe that today marks the anniversary of the fiscal disaster in four sorry to seventy four people died this approach is even a nice because the twenty one people were sentenced to death the full responsibility in the first twenty one of them often put aside to put aside people

who are protesting at the government and also this unfair burden what is being done what steps are being taken to end the deadly violence that's been going on for a week now. yesterday we had a key meeting brokered final month which is easy it is the highest islamic call thirty what happened was in this meeting is focused on the violence initiative representatives from the egypt chacha egypt all chicken services started mr. islamic a representative also in the middle baradei he's an opposition leader said to me he's head of the peterson party for the muslim brotherhood they all make a quite an unprecedented meeting and sign this initiative condemning violence calling people protest and dialogue this was however met with some criticism from revolutionary forces who said it didn't specify state violence in addition we have to be fair with dialogue in the future as the opposition coalition up of

a front passed that they will have dialogue with the president on this doesn't precondition to think leads to the cabinet resigning a national salvation government thinking. which is something the president unselfish said will not happen actually in the meeting and in germany he said he will not have the government says step down the current government set down to offer the parliamentary elections so we still have issues in egypt with suspected violence occurring later on in the day. cairo based journalist bel true live with us on the line from tahrir square thank you for that thousands there protesting. a rocket with communications equipment on board has strayed off course and plunged into the pacific ocean soon after takeoff the company responsible for the launches said it will look into why it happened here's artie's you've got to know with details the zenith rocket with the u.s. communications satellite on board blasted off from the odyssey floating platform but to went off course almost immediately and its engines were switched off and it

did into the pacific somewhere along the equator less than a minute after takeoff now on the equator the earth's rotation speed provides an additional booster rocket so they could carry more weight when it comes to launching from floating platforms besides looking or some there are advantages and disadvantages like there's a minimal risk of rockets falling down on inhabited areas but waves could be a problem in fact there is speculation that that could have been the case this story is a collaboration between russia in their gear and to us buoying companies they've been working together since one thousand nine hundred five thirty four successful launches while this was supposed to be the first launch in two thousand and thirteen sexual abuse harassment and loss of state marred the german catholic later we investigate how much money trade evidence helps priests accused of serious crimes escape trial that's after

a break. well . it's technology innovation all the leaders developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big show.

welcome back you're watching archie was me and you see now a live from the russian capital france's president francois hollande is planning a trip to mali to survey what's being held as successful military intervention against islamist now the french acknowledged however that the operation is entering a tricky phase which is likely to involve guerrilla tactics from extremists observers say the three week long fighting has spread more havoc across the country with civilians paying a bloody price for it we've got the story of one of the victims brought to us exclusively by local journalists gonzalo wants. grosser the last one of us as betty

ellis the war became a real nightmare for the people of this small city in the segura region it was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadists arrived sweeping south towards the capital bamako the french intervention left a pile of debris and ashes that's just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who were left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. one brother was attacked by a group of militants the ridge children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but missed and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets we laid his body in the house we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. just because this is just one example of the terror that

the conflict is putting mali and civilians through plaguing the weakest the most no one was surprised when india bali once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. as france prepares to hand over the operation in mali to local troops which are increasingly being accused of atrocities and actually dot com we've got exclusive footage allegedly showing evidence of war crimes by troops there we also have stories from people on the ground about how they are living through the western led battle against islamists. serious blows to the reputation of the german catholic church have resulted in more and more worshippers turning their backs on it child abuse and sexual harassment cases committed by priests that don't even get to court are seen as the main reason for dramatically shrinking congregations they may find some of the details in peter oliver's report disturbing

. the abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence or undone. in one nine hundred seventy nine when i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol. he asked me what i thought of his penis which was a wrecked then the priest made me perform oral sex on him. the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to

a different parish while this church where its alleged abuses took place remains closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court now it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the richness is sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have a trial usually fail christine pfeiffer had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as nineteen forty five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse up to ten years also that twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with a senior cleric sheikh over what information would be made public the scandal that

this research is no not going to be finished. it's causing problems to them as well now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency if lapsed catholics but to be brought back into the flock are women. really moving and when we do not make things clear there will always be enough that something is being covered up this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is about foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust. for will for trust has been lost he says he will never set foot to the church a good he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over r.c. germany there's more news for you online including on guard that's just north korea

and much of the imposes moore's law urging its army to prepare for war head to our web site to find out if the korean peninsula is on the brink of military conflict. and find out all about a city that exists only for six days a year we've got all about the russian atlantis and our t.v. dot com. serious k. opposition group has joined the chorus of outrage over what the regime says was an israeli bombing near damascus the national coalition slammed the airstrike on a military research center inside syria as an attack on the country's sovereignty and while the government has pledged to retaliate some mideast experts say the rebels condemnation of the israeli attack is should be seen with caution because the reported bombing of the site actually plays into their hands. the main thing right now is to remember that this comes on the heels of systematic

targeting of syrian our bases by the syrian free army and the syrian opposition also i'd like to remind you that the syrian opposition has already thought of a radar station on the edges of the golan heights last year so this comes as a continuation of the effort to. royd the syrian army by the opposition and now by the masters themselves by the israelis so what we are witnessing now is a reflection of the political impasse that the syrian opposition as suffering from being able to achieve anything significant on the ground they have resorted to help from the zionists directly i don't think that is policy of making public comments of strikes be it sussan nations or strikes that they launch

outside the bonder is of international law apologetic poorly prepared struggling to defend his views this is how critics and journalists scored barack obama's pick for the next defense secretary after his confirmation hearing in the senate chuck hagel did his best to prove to lawmakers that he's on the same page as them during an eight hour grilling are you going to church you can listen in on the session. chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous

statements on israel and iran and there was so much mentioning of israel that at some point they were confirming him as secretary of defense for israel i couldn't count how many times he said all options are on the table with regards to iran again and again saying a strike on iran is an option an option that he had previously called irresponsible by the way here's what chuck hagel treasurers heating throughout the hearing get the united nations behind you get international sanctions behind you keep military options on the table if the military option is the only option it's the only option one of the senators pointed out during the hearing that in a private conversation senator hagel recently told him that he thought sanctions didn't work and previously chuck hagel voted against sanctions but today's trip a goal as we found out during this hearing is for. if mr haye goal was in favor of direct negotiations with iran as he had previously claimed he was he offered

a correction a very big one he tried to blur his response as much as he could here's what he said i don't have a problem with engaging i think great powers engaging engagement is clearly in our interest that's not negotiation engagement is not appeasement engagement is not sure under so no direct negotiations with iran here's another example of how chuck hagel had to walk back on some of his previous statements at one time he said and this has become a famous quote the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of is world and of quote here's chuck hagel during this confirmation hearing noted that i. that i should have used another term and i'm sorry and i regret it i mean do your use of intimidation. i should have used influence. i think would have been more appropriate i should

not have said dumb or stupid. because i understand appreciate there are different views in these things it was like torture watching the hearing because it seemed as if the senators were not there to question chuck hagel but they were there to break him because they kept going back to his previous statements and pushing and pushing until he said what they wanted to hear and he did it so whoever thought chuck hagel was going to offer a new outlook on u.s. foreign policy after this hearing would seriously doubt that. now we're always interested in what you think about the issues we're covering here at r t it's today at r t v dot com we're asking why hagel stance on iran has become more hawkish let's take a look at what you think so far the smallest percent the least amount of you believe that he's really changing his views after some classified data perhaps was came into light that it's a genuine change in position of

a little bit more of you around twenty percent believe he's playing a game this is a ploy to counter criticism of being anti israeli like we heard from a guy named there in washington a third of you believes it doesn't matter he won't have any influence on your own policy whoever gets the job will continue to push the white house as policies but most of you the largest percent believe that it actually proves hegel's own claim that no one stands up to the jewish lobby that of course was the claim that he made before he was eyeing secretary of defense will drop us a line head on to r.t. dot com and let us know what you think in a few minutes we've got a report on the tough daily life in one of the coldest regions on earth so stay with us for that here on our city.

here reindeer is everything for the herders. and when it suffers people do their best to help. but the distances are. down the roads are. unpredictable.

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thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow and two thousand kilometers from alaska. yes yes come here. what's wrong with him. take a look at his who has also fallen. but yes he can't get much food from under the snow because of the pain in his leg he's lost weight and need to vet. out of the contact base right away. to. the nearest villages have to steer one hundred kilometers away thick forest is all around there are no roads c.b. radio is the only means of communication here but common horseshoe. roger having missed me. not even for century.

why it's happened. the reindeer are sick we need medicine. it's coming ok good. man soon video of left to cook scratch a stiff few hours after news of the crippled reindeer came through ramon is always ready for a long journey even though his car doesn't have a jack wrench or even a rope and it only has a shovel. not what the people began calling me as soon as they knew i was coming they wanted me to bring some basic supplies with me. off and i wish those are all

there's no other way to reach them. the reindeer herd isn't even medicine fuck you hunters and horse herders also need some good stuff but i think it's going to be a lot of fun. these reindeer also had it for how to steer several days ago the herd left it could just southern most knew not to come since then herders have led them through thick forest to this small country track where they will meet with friends from a village away. hi there i how is the journey what about the rain there that's just fine well they're comfortable in the snow so let's not waste any time below them on the truck and get going. well i'm not sure how they feel it's important that their county.

can. turn the wheels. right. to the right time telling here. the reindeer will be specially carried by truck a long trek compact snow would injure their hooves. we are taking them to a festival and how to steer a bear will take part in reindeer team races i myself have trained one of the pairs but i trained them in a forest glade where the snow is usually softer than the main thing now is to get there i wonder how they will react to all the people in the village i hope to be able to win at least one round. out of the. ring to hurt in a can of his twenty one years old he began herding reindeer in the tighar to finishing school he didn't take him long to get accustomed to tyga life in

a can't see didn't used to like visiting how to steer but some time ago he fell in love with a local girl and did himself to the girl's parents and married her all within a week now for the first time in his life to revisit the village he's not yet seen their two month old daughter. it is a long way to how to steer the road is studded with potholes frost and lumps of snow all of them are dangerous for reindeer but the biggest problem is keeping them calm last year panic stricken reindeer overturned their trailer that's why in a kantian you decide to a company that charges this time around. travelling long distances alone in your course it is dangerous the settlements are few and far

between a snowy road is the only guy. i didn't this vast expanse but it doesn't take long for harsh weather to obscure it from view but you know you look like you could use roads a coin to challenge for example it could take you ten twenty twenty four hours to cover five hundred kilometers. those planning a trip here could see as remote regions look for would be fellow travelers well in advance they advertise their plans in the press and on local television the way fare is agree on when to depart by phone beforehand even travelling with strangers is better than going it alone remand is lucky his close friend if jenny has agreed to join him on his journey. this small chapel on the hill is the best place for a meeting point.

colas of how i. now find our house that is going. on going to take a nap in the backseat. the winter road takes them along the ice bound linna river thousands of years ago the ravines on its banks provided shelter. of god all of which there are lots of rock paintings in the crews here but they haven't yet been studied properly of. the rocks a crumbling away from erosion causing many paintings to disappear. nobody knows when they were made. most of the rock hard features the elk master of the siberian tiger are another animal depicted as the bison one of the main targets for hunters according to archaeologists primitive humans killed off the last bison you could hear some six

thousand years ago scientists of. numerous bones of the magnificent beasts the ancient nomad camps. but recently direct descendants of the siberian bison reappeared here in the early twenty first century . these large mammals have an excellent sense of smell bison love that an area because they always smell of hay they keep the bison in good health communicate with them and even help with their private lives. when bison have a matriarchal society the main herd is commanded by a wise mother she is always surrounded by young mothers and the cubs bulls keep away from them they roam by themselves or in small groups but there is a dawn one among them his name is yashica he insists on being with the cows.

bison returned due to an unprecedented experiment set up by canada's elk islands national park it was the first time in history that would bison were exported to a foreign country once and you could hear they managed to enjoy the temperatures of minus sixty degrees celsius they easily adapted to life in the tai-chi. remand and you have kenny hit the first obstacle in that journey a vehicle stuck in the snow. below how can you help sure no problem i know i mean the same situation tomorrow we should always help each other.

the reindeer herd heads back to hop out of stock when to camp virus. canal during the winter people can only reach this place with snowmobiles in the summer you need a heavy duty truck to nothing else will be able to take you through the thick forest. put is don't gain any profit from rearing forest reindeer. they never stroll to their animals to sell meat no effort is made to ensure the herds continuous growth instead they make a living from hunting. for men who are good to us reindeer are like humans but they differ from them in that they are pure at heart some of them are bad tempered and some are happy. but there are also meat animals among them all of them should be treated like children if you hurt their feelings just once they will hold a grudge against you as long as they live. a sick grain dig

gives the hood is cause for concern now they need to examine the entire hood to satisfy themselves that all the other animals the healthy males the last suit and the employers removed new employees will grow in the spring they will harden during the also just in time to bring do races. if we come on come on. really look at them go. through. the stall hold him hold him ok good well done. this one a strong. didn't wades on the necks of the animals give the herd as control without them the beasts would easily escape from the musters and scatter around the woods there they

believe that reindeer are guardians of the human soul they also believe that the reindeer was a gift from god to humankind by tradition they roam from place to place together with their reindeer be it summer or winter. remanding me of getting have driven for hours with them to baltics for the reindeer. what do you think would be able to get any further it'll be a tough. one just michigan we're crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near here that all those strong winds blowing up all the time even if you're trying to clears the way the road becomes blocked off within a very short time so we need to go at top speed. and we have to make sure we don't run into a snow drift which. will mean quite a bit of trouble if we don't forge ahead otherwise we get stuck in the snow machine for the time being which are having

a hard. time now in ours. in winter the ice on the lenna river is two and a half meters thick it is a lifeline to people living in out of the way villages supplying them with food coal the route opens at the start of winter and last through to the end of may. these are called the land of pillows this is a protected area. few people know the year coots regarded as a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here. victim maxime off comes from a family of shamans while performing a purification ritual he appeals to

a benevolent. alkis the shaman stands at the site of the gigantic rupture that almost broke the siberian mainland into more than half a billion years ago it was at that time that the fanciful yanna pillis formed. the shaman pleads with the winds to drive all evil to the arctic ocean and clear the skies to reveal the womb for the sun. to treat the white creator to fermented mares milk pulled from a u. kuti in both. forms his rituals only in the daytime victim never uses a tumbler eem because of the belief that it's sound attracts both evil as well as good spirits. or some set the salmon a piece is dark forces by playing the folk instrument called the.

very are. they it could believe the energy from the center of the earth flows out of the pillows village elders say this is where the spirits like to congregate as for shannon's this is the long standing belief the displaced reconciles good and evil and life and death.